Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans

[@tedanzigg]

Being brought up in the 50’s I have good memories of dance band music, no tv but the radio was on constantly, my mother loved music and dancing

[@davidrhodes6009]

So lovely to hear the easy voice of Alan Dell. It brings back fond memories of hearing him on the BBC on Sunday afternoons. Carroll Gibbons and Anne Lenner are very hard to beat.

[@postwar46]

Lovely to hear the music and songs of a gentle time, and to be refreshed of Anne Lenner . Thanks for posting. Later of course the war years arrived.

[@alanwitton5039]

Great listening

[@lewstone1934]

Rudy Vallee wrote one of my favourite Sinatra songs: Talk to Me.

[@lovethe1930s40s]

Terrific! Delightfully informative and beautifully produced programme with the real highlight being the Anne Lenner interview! This is wonderful! So many thank you's!!!

[@jokanahan]

Thank you! Very impressive production all round, and great to hear the wonderful Alan Dell again. Bravo!!

[@andynew2]

His composition "Bubbling Over" is one of my favourites.

[@JonathanHolmesjazz]

Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing these gems

[@paulkate72]

In my view, Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans (or the Boyfriends - different connotations then!) were the finest of all the superb British dance bands of the day. And that's saying something!

[@ChristopherScottDixon]

TY so much for this upload, wonderful! :-)

[@lawrencelinehan4602]

Thanks for uploading.

[@essexpeter6116]

We in part must remember the dear old gent the late Alan Dell who was a regular on BBC radio in the 70s and 80s keeping this era of music remembered. Do these programs on KZbin come from privately recorded archives? The BBC has been quite good at losing old recording from what I can gather.

[@BASICT01]

They were recorded off-air on a radio-cassette machine from the medium wave in 1972.

[@essexpeter6116]

@@BASICT01 I used to record to a tape deck in the 80s but tapes mostly u/s now. My brother used to get livid as occasionally I did record over some of his cr@ppy heavy metal stuff. Thanks

[@robfriedrich2822]

In 1972 the solution was to remove anything above 4 kHz, as would frequencies above this introduced in 1950

[@cenutriox]

Methinks the first excerpt played by Carroll Gibbons is Irving Berlin's song "The Piccolino", from "Top Hat", not "The Continental".

[@robfriedrich2822]

The motherless and fatherless ones does good music